Claude Duet: set one boundary rule before granting access
The author explains Claude Duet's periodic email and calendar checks and proposes a first rule: read, sort and draft freely, but ask before sending and never touch bank accounts.
Anthropic just launched an AI chief of staff. Here's the one rule I'd give it first, BEFORE giving it total access to anything in my computer: Claude Duet checks your email, calendar and apps every few hours and only messages you when something needs your attention. It's a research preview for Pro and Max users in the US, by waitlist, at no extra cost. I already run my own AI chief of staff. I call him Maximus. So I know the feature list isn't the hard part. The line is. the rule: "Read, sort, brief and draft on your own. Ask me before anything sends. Never click links or touch my bank accounts." the day: → 7 a.m. briefing with my top 3 priorities → 10 a.m. inbox check, read-only → anything urgent, I get an alert right away → 1 p.m. replies drafted in my voice, held, not sent → same check every 3 hours until 9 p.m. → nothing goes out until I say yes My advice to everybody: "you need to review the emails before they go out until you're at a comfort level where you already know what the email is going to say." inbox → briefing → drafts → 0 sent without my yes The value isn't what it can do. It's where you draw the line. Save this for when your invite lands.